Category: Shared Collections
Cycles 8/9 Collections Analysis Underway – Initial Findings and Summary Reports Available for Download
WEST completed its last full collection analysis in 2016 when, for the first time, WEST Archive Holders and Builders made commitments for two years of archiving work. Now, as WEST nears the end of the second year of that work, […]
New Mass Digitization Section Added to CDLib.org
The Mass Digitization section on the CDLib.org website has a brand new look! New and updated content describes the work, goals, and projects of the Mass Digitization team. Included is information on where to find, access, and use UC’s mass […]
Call for Cycle 7 Archive Disclosures – Due May 25, 2018
The WEST project team recently sent out a call for WEST Archive Holders and Builders to submit metadata records describing the journal backfiles archived during WEST Cycle 7. Cycle 7 marks the second year in WEST’s inaugural two-year archiving period. During […]
SCP Monthly Update – April 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of March. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. We added a new collection of ProQuest US major dailies […]
The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST) Joins the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance
On March 12, EAST and the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance announced EAST’s participation in the Alliance. EAST joins the four founding Rosemont members—BTAA, FLARE, Scholars Trust, and WEST—in a national effort to ensure the preservation and availability of print journal […]
Cobweb Update: How Cobweb Facilitates Participatory Web Archiving
Given its breadth and depth, archiving the web can seem an overwhelming endeavor. Digital curators typically approach web archiving by first determining what to collect based on the collecting scope established by their organization. Once they’ve identified the general theme […]
CDL joins Royal Society Open Access Membership
CDL has recently signed on to the Royal Society Open Access Membership, an arrangement under which UC-affiliated authors (from any UC campus, UC Office of the President, or Lawrence Berkeley Lab) are entitled to a 25% discount off of Article […]
CDL welcomes Julia Kochi
Beginning today (April 2, 2018), a new – and to some, a very familiar – face has joined the CDL licensing team. Julia Kochi, Director of Collection & User Services at the UCSF Library, will be working at CDL 3 […]
Stat!Ref – Tier 2 resource – cancelled
Stat!Ref has been cancelled as a multi-campus subscription (UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, and UCSD) as of March 2018. Individual campuses may be continuing subscriptions to selected titles. Please contact the health sciences collections librarian at your campus for more information.
Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library Collection Eight is Available
For the nine participating campuses (all except UCSB), Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers Synthesis Series (http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/browseLbS.jsp) has begun making its eighth collection of lectures available online. The basic component of the library is a 50 to 100-page electronic book that […]